What is under sea?

Definition of undersea
(Entry 1 of 2) 1 : being or carried on under the sea or under the surface of the sea undersea oil deposits undersea fighting. 2 : designed for use under the surface of the sea an undersea fleet. undersea.
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What can I see under the sea?

  • This underwater river in Cenote Angelita, Mexico. ...
  • This sink hole off the coast of Belize. ...
  • This underwater restaurant on Rangali Island, the Maldives. ...
  • This underwater room on the Zanzibari island of Pemba, in Africa. ...
  • This underwater waterfall in Mauritius. ...
  • The sunken city of Alexandria, in Egypt.
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Is there life under sea?

Researchers have recently found living microorganisms thriving below the Oceanic floor, deep in Earth's lower crust in volcanic rocks. “The lower ocean crust is one of the last frontiers of the exploration for life on Earth,” explained microbiologist Virginia Edgcomb.
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What is underwater nature?

The underwater environment is the region below the surface of, and immersed in, liquid water in a natural or artificial feature (called a body of water), such as an ocean, sea, lake, pond, reservoir, river, canal, or aquifer.
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What is inside the ocean?

The oceans hold about 321 million cubic miles (1.34 billion cubic kilometers) of water, which is roughly 97 percent of Earth's water supply. Seawater's weight is about 3.5 percent dissolved salt; oceans are also rich in chlorine, magnesium, and calcium.
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Why is the ocean blue?

The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. Like a filter, this leaves behind colors in the blue part of the light spectrum for us to see. The ocean may also take on green, red, or other hues as light bounces off of floating sediments and particles in the water.
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Is there a hidden world under the sea?

The hidden world under the sea: Scientists find 'parallel universe' of life INSIDE the basalt of the oceanic crust. A parallel universe of life exists hidden beneath our planet's ocean floors and could help us search for life on other planets, new research claims.
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What's under the sea floor?

The ocean floor is called the abyssal plain. Below the ocean floor, there are a few small deeper areas called ocean trenches. Features rising up from the ocean floor include seamounts, volcanic islands and the mid-oceanic ridges and rises.
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How deep does the ocean go down?

The average ocean depth is 3.7 kilometers (2.3 miles).

The deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and is located beneath the western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which runs several hundred kilometers southwest of the U.S. territorial island of Guam.
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What's the craziest thing found in the ocean?

The weirdest things found in the ocean
  • An ancient computer. When snorkellers explored a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera in 1901, they did not expect to discover an ancient computer. ...
  • Giant Lego man. ...
  • Locomotive graveyard. ...
  • Robot hand. ...
  • Rubber ducks.
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What do we get from the sea?

It provides a treasured source of recreation for humans. It is mined for minerals (salt, sand, gravel, and some manganese, copper, nickel, iron, and cobalt can be found in the deep sea) and drilled for crude oil. The ocean plays a critical role in removing carbon from the atmosphere and providing oxygen.
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Is there an ocean inside the ocean?

The Earth has so much water that even more hiding right beneath our feet. You might think that the depths of the ocean are the strangest place on Earth, and we would have agreed with you. Except that we just found out that there's almost certainly another ocean, a secret ocean, hiding right beneath our feet.
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Is there a city under the sea?

Pavlopetri, Greece

Pavlopetri is thought to be the oldest underwater city in history. Located on the southern coast of Lakonia in Greece, the flooding of the city is said to have taken place around 5,000 years ago.
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Is there a city under water?

Dwarka, India

Also known as the Gateway to Heaven, the city of Dwarka was, reportedly, discovered in 1988, submerged around 100 ft below the Gulf of Cambay. Underneath, ancient structures, grids, pillars, and ancient artifacts were found.
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What is beneath the earth?

Deep in the centre of the planet is the 'inner core', which we think is made of solid iron and nickel. This is surrounded by the 'outer core', which is also made of iron and nickel, but is molten. Convection currents in the outer core create Earth's magnetic field.
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Is the ocean scary?

While it's nice to imagine that there's nothing but placid water below us when we're taking a dip in the ocean, the reality is much more terrifying. In fact, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission estimates that the ocean floor is home to a staggering 3 million wrecked vessels.
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What color is deep sea?

What color is Deep Ocean? Deep Ocean color is a dark, marine blue with a touch of green undertones and part of our Accents collection. Evoking the mysteries of the ocean depths, Deep Ocean is a sophisticated choice for a whole room maximum impact.
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Why is 95% of the ocean unexplored?

“The intense pressures in the deep ocean make it an extremely difficult environment to explore.” Although you don't notice it, the pressure of the air pushing down on your body at sea level is about 15 pounds per square inch. If you went up into space, above the Earth's atmosphere, the pressure would decrease to zero.
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Why is the ocean red?

Ocean water can appear red if there is a bloom of a specific kind of phytoplankton causing a discoloration of the sea surface. These events are called “Red tides.” However, not all red tides are harmful, and they are only considered harmful algal blooms if the type of plankton involved contains hazardous toxins.
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Why is ocean salty?

From precipitation to the land to the rivers to the sea

The rain physically erodes the rock and the acids chemically break down the rocks and carries salts and minerals along in a dissolved state as ions. The ions in the runoff are carried to the streams and rivers and then to the ocean.
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What is the world's hottest sea?

The hottest ocean area is in the Persian Gulf, where water temperatures at the surface exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. Another hot area exists in the Red Sea, where a temperature of 132.8 degrees Fahrenheit has been recorded at a depth of about 6,500 feet.
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What lives in the sea?

What Animals Live in the Ocean?
  1. Invertebrates.
  2. Sharks. ...
  3. Seabirds. ...
  4. Turtles. Sea turtle under water. ...
  5. Mammals. Humpback Whale underwater girl diving in tropical water. ...
  6. Fish. Pink anemone fish among a blue anemone patch in the warm, tropical waters of Guam, USA. ...
  7. Shellfish. A lobster out looking for food. ...
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How deep the Earth is?

We derive our primary estimate of the temperature of the deep earth from the melting behavior of iron at ultrahigh pressures. We know that the earth's core depths from 2,886 kilometers to the center at 6,371 kilometers (1,794 to 3,960 miles), is predominantly iron, with some contaminants.
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Where does the sea end?

The lower end is called the ocean floor, the upper end is called the surface, and these two meet on the shoreline. So it has ends in all directions.
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